Thanks David

stevegardam — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:42:11 +0000

Very interesting article by Jennifer - it's both eerie and a little disheartening to see how relevant it still is.

Cheers

Steve

Steve Gardam
Head of Corporate Education
Imperial War Museum, London, UK

when the web is more like inside, the task is easier

dbear — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:29:57 +0000

One theme here is that the Web is alien, so bringing its values in will be a task.

When the Web was young, Jennifer wrote a piece for ICOM that has a lot of relevance still (

"When All You've Got Is 'The Real Thing": Museums
and Authenticity in the Networked world," presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Documentation Committee of ICOM/CIDOC,
Nuremburg, 1997, and Archives and Museum Informatics: the
cultural Heritage Informatics Quarterly, Vol.
12, no. 2, 1998. Paper available at www.archimuse.com/papers/trant-cido97.pdf ;
presentation at www.archimuse.com//papers/jt.cidoc.97/jt.cidoc.97.pdf)

What it suggests is that if the values that we exemplify on the museum web are those of the museum, the integration between what takes place on the Web and what takes place in the museum, and how those interactions take place, is reduced. Still a valid observation I think:-)

David Bearman

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Thanks David

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